The Kachin Conflict : Testing the Limits of the Political Transition in Myanmar

• Hoofdauteur: Carine Jaquet (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Institut de recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine 2015
• Onderwerpen: Myanmar; politics; development; Kachin state; minorities; Burma; ethnic conflict; marginalization; army; political transition; centralization; military; state; tatmadaw
• Online toegang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Fighting in Kachin state flared back up just months after President Thien Sein came to power in March 2011. The new government almost immediately began negotiating a series of peace agreements with ethnic armed groups declaring that the signature of a nationwide ceasefire with all ethnic armed group...